PEDAGOGY-SPJIMR WAY

 “The Secret Of Joy In Work Is Contained In One Word – Excellence. To Know How To Do Something Well Is To Enjoy It.”-Pearl Buck

 

 

 

SPJIMR, Mumbai pioneers yet again thinking differently from its peers. In line with SPJAIN's core values of influencing practice, institute sponsored PGPM-14 for an offsite trip of three days at Lonavala Resort. At the end of three days, if not our practice, everyone knows at least know one more person better than he/she knew him back in college. Mission accomplished J. There are three real life HR lessons we have learnt in this trip: Take some time to network, Know yourself well to understand others better, Trust your colleagues to leverage their skills.

The beginning: It was 01:00 pm in the afternoon on a typical hot Mumbai day, after a string of cautionary mails on do's and don'ts and ban on alcohol we finally boarded buses. Of course, delayed by couple of hours :) thanks to all those laggards. All the gentlemen and ladies boarded first bus. All the dudes chose second and of course all those who are everything else except gentlemen chose third bus. Naturally, you can predict where all fun was. It was loud, boisterous yet it was awesome all the way. It was an opportunity to bond with your friends. Key learning at the end of the day is that if you try harder nothing is impossible. Who would have known you can climb ghat road even at 10kmph :).

 

Day1: We were pleasantly surprised with accommodation and hospitality at hotel. Key theme for first day is "know yourself well before you know others better". There was a string of tests: johari's window, behavior test, personality type tests. You can see that people are really involved with their emotions swaying and taking inputs from each session asking questions from professors. It was great to see that "S" acting as natural hedge "N"s.  "E"s trying to dominate "I"s. It was rather fun pulling each other’s leg. Key learning is share more and receive more.

 

Day2: It was Feb19 and it is when all the real action started as all the three outbound activities (Trekking, Assault, and Treasure hunt) lined up for next two days. Assault clearly shows that knowing what to do (strategy) is as important if not more important than knowing how to do. Who hell thought that picking a ball from water can be that difficult. If you don't have a strategy all your key resources and as well as your time and energy goes waste. Unarguably, Trekking" is the best outbound experience. It started with people warming up with apprehensions on the destination. It is a great bonding experience not only with others but with your inner self. The steep rock that you have to climb just with the help of single rope tied to a twig or trust you put on your friend while climbing down shows that you need to have faith sometimes and people respond. Everyone did really well, it was physically demanding but fun all the way. Sighting sunset on the way down is fitting culmination for the outbound activities for the day. Talent night in the evening showed glimpses of all the creativity and talent that PGPM-1114 has.

 

Day3: Last day people took turns to complete their final outbound activity. Treasure Hunt gave an opportunity to leverage other skills to achieve a common goal. Key factor is that don't treat others in the organization as competition rather you are working as different teams to achieve a common goal. It is good to see that people helping each other and using creativity to perform the tasks.  

 

 

Overall it is great start for an exciting year ahead. I am sure it gets better going forward. Happy to be part of vivacious PGPM-1114

 

Key learning is: Know yourself better to understand your team better.

 

Manoj Matala-

 

 

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